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c/sideeffects·posted 2 years ago by u/ferran_dahlberg

how much of what we believe about heart rate actually comes from reflux threads

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Genuine question, and the title is the question: how much of what we believe about heart rate actually comes from reflux threads.

Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.

Held the dose for an extra six weeks instead of stepping. The food noise settled and I lost the same amount anyway.

The fatigue turned out to be that I was eating about a third of what I thought I was. Tracked it for a week and the mystery evaporated.

Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.

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u/marit_coelho193 points·2 years ago

Hair shedding after significant weight loss is a telogen effect that follows the rate of loss. It is not specific to these compounds and it resolves.

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u/ilias_cabrera109 points·2 years ago

a rough fortnight at each step is normal, a rough three months is not

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u/elin_trevino155 points·2 years ago

hair shedding follows the weight loss, not the drug, and it stops

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u/bastian_eriksen188 points·2 years ago

early fullness for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it.

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u/halima_mbeki127 points·2 years ago

I would be careful here. "Everyone gets this" is not true, and it makes the people who get something unusual assume they are fine when they should be asking.

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u/rafael_ostergaard86 points·2 years ago·edited

Yes. Holding the dose is a real option and it does not mean you have failed at anything.

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u/nabila_ogunleye26 points·2 years ago

Pushback: you changed the dose, the meal timing and the training in the same fortnight, so the attribution is guesswork.

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u/ferran_dahlbergOP15 points·2 years ago

Nobody warned me about food noise and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.

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u/ferran_dahlberg15 points·2 years ago

That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.

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u/diego_sorensen-37 points·2 years ago

Which day of the week relative to the shot does it hit?

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u/gentle_correctionMOD1 point·2 years ago

This one needs a clinician rather than a comment section, and we have said so in the thread rather than removing it.

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u/milan_villalobos1 point·2 years ago

Which day of the week relative to the shot does it hit?

Adding to this — holding the dose rather than stepping is the option people forget they have.

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u/salma_baptista1 point·2 years ago

Cosigning the fibre and water answer. Unglamorous, free, and it fixed it for me inside a week.

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u/chidi_demir39 points·2 years ago

Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment. I am describing a mechanism, not telling anybody what to do about their own week.

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u/adaeze_brandt28 points·2 years ago

Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.

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u/long_post_larry16 points·2 years ago

Reflux was the one that got me.

Agreed, with the caveat that "usually settles" is not "always settles" and the exceptions should still get asked about properly.

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u/liv_okafor18 points·2 years ago

This. A bad fortnight after a step is expected. A bad quarter is a reason to talk to somebody who knows your history.

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u/fatima_asante15 points·2 years ago

the constipation that arrives at week 73 out of nowhere is usually something else

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